Do people here actually READ threads?

LorinaLynn

No if its 5 pages in im not going to read every single reply before I comment

This. And yes, I got this far and skimmed the rest. And sometimes I open a bunch of tabs and there's a dozen more posts by the time I get to that particular thread.

Plus, it might be a symptom of the Ignore feature. I personally don't have anyone on ignore, but "someone" who blocks everyone who disagrees is going to miss a whole lotta posts, especially ones on useful data, studies and links.

MostlyWater

I find this post sort of harsh. Of course we read, that's why we're here.

Calorie_Killa

I lot of these threads can be super long and overwhelming. Just speaking for myself but I don't always have the time to read through every response before posting mine. As I just did with this one.

Jorra

I find this post sort of harsh. Of course we read, that's why we're here.

HMonsterX

I just get annoyed when i see a thread saying "is this true?", and people go to the time and make the effort to find some studies, post them, cite examples of anecdotal evidence to disprove it, then someone 20 minutes later posts "yes it is true herpdederp"...

Did you not read the posts? Did you not see the evidence?

Seriously, I'm sure some people are just here to spout their crap, and really don't want to learn anything that is actually true.

kb455

I lot of these threads can be super long and overwhelming. Just speaking for myself but I don't always have the time to read through every response before posting mine. As I just did with this one.

Same. Some of the threads are pages and pages long.... I don't think that if you don't have time to read the whole thing, you shouldn't be able to comment.

Yanicka1

SQUIRREL

TheRoadDog

SO YOU WANT TO BE A DRAGON?
Veteran players are returning to the game to wait out the arrival of patch 4.3. Elsewhere, feet are dragging. Guilds are disbanding. Former 25-man raid teams are splintering into 10s. And Spin the Dragon is receiving far more applications than usual.

We've been fielding a lot of questions: is your guild application serious? Why are you asking me about this? Do you really expect me to answer these? What if I don't like 3-D dolphins?

Our guild application is as serious as something that's asking you to please write a story about two pokemon fighting can be, and we keep it that way because it works. The way you answer social questions tells us a little bit about you (and gives you a pretty good idea of who we are, too). But just in case you'd like to know more: Spin the Dragon is a Horde guild on the US-Sentinels (RP) server. We've been here for two years, but our officer corp (and some of our raiders) go back much further. At any given time of day our Vent server's hosting someone playing TF2, EverQuest or Minecraft. The rest of us are on Facebook at work asking for help growing imaginary strawberries or something.

While raiding is our primary focus, you don't have to raid if you don't want to. If you are apping to raid, we're more interested in your personality than your experience. If you're a Decent Dude (or Lady) with demonstrated knowledge of your class -- or a willingness to learn and improve -- we're interested in hearing from you.


THE FINE PRINT:
If you don't have the best gear or the most experience, that's fine. We're willing to help gear up the right people for our progression raiding. Our raid leaders will often rotate raiders based on the amount of accepted invitations and what specialized classes may be needed for a particular fight, or previous raiding experience/seniority. Additionally, we do hold some basic expectations of our raiders in order to participate:

- A computer capable of handing twenty-five man raiding with minimal add-ons (DBM, Omen, etc.) and Ventrilo without serious lag.
- A reliable, consistent internet connection.
- Arriving to the raid on time and with knowledge of the raid, if available.
- Knowing your role, class, and spec and remaining up-to-date on each.
- Understanding and accepting that you may be rotated out (or in) to a raid for certain class roles.
- The ability to listen and react.

We generally run our raids two to three nights a week anywhere from 9PM to 12AM (EST). Beyond that, we also run the weekly up to twice a week, and host arena teams which we highly encourage our raiders to participate in. If there are any old content raids or other events that our guild members want to run, we encourage them to get together and fill any empty calendar days. Here's a rough outline of our schedule by week:

Sunday: Progression Raiding
Monday: Progression Raiding
Tuesday: Open/PvP
Wednesday: Guild Achievements/TRANSMOG BONANZA (9PM - 11PM EST)
Thursday: Open/PvP
Friday: Open/PvP
Saturday: Open/PVP

Loot disbursement is done by a Ni Karma system; a great explanation of NKS can be found here: http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/07/18/nonstandard-loot-systems-in-wow-page-2/. Anyone who negatively takes advantage of the system or otherwise acts in poor conduct will be dealt with accordingly by our guild officers. All of our active raiders are given access to gold for repairs, flasks, food, and help with any materials or enchantments you need to get the best out of your gear.


OPENINGS & MORE INFO:
1 DPS, ranged preferred (a skilled hunter would be dandy), but we're willing to work around things for a solid performer.

Apply at spin.wowstead.com. Any questions can be sent to Heed in-game, or if you prefer email, youthculture@gmail.com. Players interested in joining Spin as a non-raider can still fill out the application or contact Heed for more info.
[Spin the dragon? wtf? What a horrible name for a guild. And adult men play porting this guild tag, oh boy....]
[Oh, WTF, they use NKS!!! Whatever you do, don't apply to this guild, they don't use DKP FFS!]

I usually read through them to get a sense of what the topic really is, but I don't read the cut and pasted crap that goes on forever like above.

Edit: I didn't mean to say that it's not relevant or to put down this person's reference. I was just trying to say that it's much more info than I want to collate. If I want to research something, I will. I was just referring to the volume. Didn't mean to put down whoever I copied that article from.

JeSuisPrest

I've noticed a growing trend on here lately.

Read title, read OP, hit reply. Type crap without reading the rest of the thread that has actual links, studies, etc.

It seems people just want to save their 2c, and not bother reading what the rest of the thread had to say first...


Grrr...

Sorry....I am occasionally guilty of this!

jennajava

I think it is better to reply to the OP instead of retaliate to other arguments.

runlaugheatpie

honestly, maybe I just want to reply and there are 5 pages of the thread and I don't have time to read everything.

anyway it doesn't much matter I either kill the thread all together or my advise/post just goes completely ignored.

and that's fine too

timadotcom

Do you bloat during your TOM? I just can't figure out why I get so bloated.

haahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa love this:bigsmile:

runlaugheatpie

I think it is better to reply to the OP instead of retaliate to other arguments.

exactly my point.

margieward82

I've noticed a growing trend on here lately.

Read title, read OP, hit reply. Type crap without reading the rest of the thread that has actual links, studies, etc.

It seems people just want to save their 2c, and not bother reading what the rest of the thread had to say first...


Grrr...

It's the American way! ... You don't hate America do you?!?

JeSuisPrest

I think it is better to reply to the OP instead of retaliate to other arguments.

exactly my point.

Agreed!

HarlCarl

I really just can't wait until I get to my 5000th post. I know you all are so interested in everything that I post....who wouldn't be?

Jeff92se

I've noticed a growing trend on here lately.

Read title, read OP, hit reply. Type crap without reading the rest of the thread that has actual links, studies, etc.

It seems people just want to save their 2c, and not bother reading what the rest of the thread had to say first...


Grrr...

:drinker:

tigersword

One feature I always have on my forums that I run is the "new reply check." a lot of times what happens on this board is someone reads an entire thread, hits reply, types up a response, and then by the time they hit post, 20 more people have replied, and their post is outdated. There should be a feature, like I said, I have it on every forum I run, that when you hit post, if other replies have been posted, it should show them, giving you the opportunity to amend your post to make sense, rather than hitting post, looking back at the thread, and then scrambling to hit "edit" to try and make your post make sense.

I will agree though, there are a lot of posters who cantbe bothered to actually read anything posted, and just spout inane garbage.

jennajava

I don't see anything about that here.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/170127-br-helpful-hints-comment-thread-etiquette

echoica

That's pretty much how most message boards run.

I just post random crap wherever I feel fit....

^same here^ :P